NetList Inc (NLST)

[mfascuba]

The guilty plea is necessary for two reasons. First, it makes an appeal more difficult to obtain in the future. Second, with the Asian “saving face” culture, it will be absolutely devastating to the careers of the individuals who were ultimately responsible. I think a huge cash judgement is also in order, to the tune of present value of all licensing fees for intellectual property stolen, plus damages sufficient to deter any future parties who might get ideas down the road. I’ve given my back of the envelope computation of fees due - it’s in the $190/share ballpark for Samsung. Triple that for treble damages, they can stroke a check for $120 billion which puts netlist around $480/share. Then let’s have that talk with Google and micron.